[inscribed by the author] Part I. The Story of Rollo. Part II. Stories and Sketches. With Illustrations by Louis Braunhold. Cover Design by Robert J. Burdette, Jr. Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition... More

[1 of 200 signed copies] A Play. London: [Morland Press,] 1923. Original full limp vellum, in the original green cloth box with spine label. First Edition, being one of 200 copies numbered and signed by Conrad (this being #177) -- issued as the fourth title in the Morland Press's "The... More

London: William Heinemann, 1921. Original grey boards with Japan vellum spine with printed label. First English Edition, being one of 250 numbered copies signed by Conrad -- this being copy #171. This was actually printed in America: Doubleday Page produced 500 copies, sending half of them to Heinemann for this... More

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Original parchment-backed boards with spine label, with dust jacket. First Published Edition, which is to say the Limited Edition -- being one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad (this being #475). This was Conrad's dramatization of his 1907... More

[inscribed to Arthur Symons] A Confession. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1917). 18 pp undated ads. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition, first issue (so stated), of Conrad's third autobiographical (though fictionalized) work -- "a Far-Eastern story of a haunted ship... No reader of... More

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. This is a volume from the "Concord Edition" of Conrad's works, published the year before his death; included is a fold-out map of the world showing all 19 of Conrad's literary voyages. The volume is... More

Two pages, on "Undershaw, Hindhead, Haslemere" stationery. No date, but "Rec'd 10 Mar 1902" is penciled in. The text of the letter reads:~I will call about quarter to 11 on Tuesday morning if that will not be too early. If you should be a little late I can no doubt... More

One page, dated by Doyle "Sept 21 / 94" on stationery on which he wrote "Reform Club." The text of this letter reads:~Among the pleasures which I hope for in the New World is that of making your acquaintance. I trust that my way (which depends upon my agent) may... More

[inscribed plus autograph letter] Revised and Enlarged Edition. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company, 1902. Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt. "Revised and Enlarged Edition," which consisted of only 1,005 copies. This was Doyle's first volume of non-fiction: the outbreak of war occupied Doyle's mind so utterly that he... More

[signed by "George Egerton"] By Ola Hansson. Translated from the Swedish by George Egerton. London: John Lane / Boston: Roberts Bros., 1895. 16 pp ads dated 1895. Original blind-stamped red cloth. First Edition in English, translated by "George Egerton" (pseudonym of Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright). This book is often collected... More

New York: Random House, 1931. Original marbled red paper-covered boards with front cover label. First Edition, this being copy #265 of the 400 numbered copies SIGNED by Faulkner. A man goes up into the mountains of Arizona to try to recover from lung disease; a woman leaves her husband and... More

[boldy inscribed by Galsworthy] By John Sinjohn. London: Duckworth & Co., 1898. 2 pp ads dated Easter 1898. Original olive green cloth. First Edition of Galsworthy's first novel (and his second book -- the first, FROM THE FOUR WINDS, having been a collection of stories). As with his first book... More

[an early literary letter] One leaf folded, with Hardy's own address in his hand "Trinity Road, Upper Tooting S.W." Two pages of text, addressed to "My dear Sir," signed "Yours very truly Thomas Hardy," and dated "Sept. 2" [no year but 1880]. The purpose of this early Hardy letter is... More